Reblogged this on Walid Damouny and commented:
In our ever connected world we usually forget to look at our old habits that made us the engaging humans we are. I vividly remember when my notion of preserving a memory was nothing more than a photo in an album of family gatherings and yearly occasions like Christmases and birthdays. In fact most of my old family photos are about Christmas. We had one camera at home and it could only take twenty four photos per film roll. When we took pictures, we tried our best to make sure everyone is looking at the camera and smiling. Changing the film was not somethings we often did and you can only imagine how excited I was when my parents popped the camera open. We couldn’t open the camera until all twenty four shots were taken because the film was photo sensitive and would get ruined if it wasn’t reeled to the very end. What a long story about family photos and I haven’t said much.

On the other hand we nowadays only think of the story in the photo. We pull out our phones at every street corner and at every occasion and our lives are plastered all over the internet. We keep a record of everything everywhere because we want to tell others about our lives and make them a part of it, even if in a very small way. We’re living in the picture frame more than we are living outside of it. It isn’t in anyway a bad thing to capture a story in frame but sometimes the story outside the frame is interesting as well.

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Hi Catherine. You can post this cartoon on your blog provided you give credit and include a link back to this site. If you want to use this image as a permanent design element, banner or identifyer for your blog, I’m afraid I can’t authorize that without compensation. If you want to discuss further, email me at: wronghands1@gmail.com

A co-worker sent this to me and I’ll have to give them a special commendation tomorrow. Great stuff. Give me a shout if you ever do any cartoons on ‘play’ or playgrounds. Cheers, Alex – http://playgroundology.wordpress.com

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Loved this cartoon! We posted it on our company Facebook page and it went absolutely viral. 🙂

I didn’t know how to contact you any other way besides posting a comment, so I’d like to ask… Any chance you have a rate sheet for custom art? We’re redesigning our website and could use your help and amazing art!

Please contact me if you’d like to talk more. Have a great rest of your week!

I called a ‘friend’ the other day to catch-up & ask him how his short-sale offer on a house was going. He promptly told me he had no time to talk & had I been following his facebook page, I would know the answer. Seriously? Yup.

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Haha. This is pretty great. I love pictures like this. Sometimes, in fact, a lot of the time, I’m not sure whether technology and social media has added to our lives? Or taken away…? Perhaps a little of both…

Hi, my name is Ruben Jimenez, I’m from Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain).
Would you give me permission to use this artwork in my course on “Social Networking”? (With your name and blog address).
The course is free.
Thank you.
(Excuse my English of the google translator 😉 )

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Reblogged this on L. V. Lewis and commented:
I figure since we all, as authors, spend a healthy (or unhealthy, as it were) amount of time on social networks, we might get a kick out of the pre-cursors to these applications we can’t seem to live without now. 🙂

Reblogged this on Exploring Dementia and commented:
I picked this up as I cruised around the web, visiting other blogs hosted on WordPress. While I had to chuckle at this, I also thought about how some of today’s technical advancements must be confusing to those who grew up “in the dark ages.” I know that I have been having a terrible time understanding Facebook and Pinterest; I can only imagine how they seem to someone who used to work as a telephone switchboard operator. I know that I will have to work harder to be a little more understanding of the people I evaluate and treat at work.

Oh man! This is an awesome picture. Very funny. Facebook has indeed replaced my address book, and I don’t even use it to share so many things, but mostly as a way to contact folks. Great piece of art pal!

Hi, it’s a nice post. Social networking have changed our life. Without it, we won’t comunicate with others that easy and fun. It’s amazing, now we can blog just via phone, to get infos from Social networking become so simple.

As long as I’m acknowledged as the artist, the image is not altered in any way, it’s not being used for commercial purposes and an active link back to my site is provided, you are free to share the work on this site. Thanks for asking! – John

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Wondrous synopsis – there is an ad for the iPad Air on at the moment with the profile of a pencil cleverly ‘disguising’ the said technological marvel – (not sure if this is a universal ad). Although it’s supposed to trick you into thinking how amazingly slim and functional the new iPad is – the oldies in the room clearly click over and think – yes, actually you just need a pencil and some paper to do almost all of that stuff..In a similar 21st C twist I was in a meeting on sustainability the other day at work when some of the younger ones referred to ceramic plates and cups as being miraculously ‘reusable.’

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